Hercules'
Tower.It was built by the Romans
as a navigation beacon in the IInd century A.D. according to the inscription
at the base of the tower and what the documental references on the city
of Brigantium (old name of A Coruña) reveal, the existence of a
lighthouse of the Trajano era. The tower possibly lost its maritime use
during the Middle Ages to be converted into a fortification. In the XVIIth
century, the Duke of Uceda - 1682 - entrusted its architectural restoration
to the architect Amaro Antune. He built a wooden staircase that crossed
the vaults up to the upper part, and two small towers to support the beacons.

In the reign of Carlos IV,
a complete reconstruction was undertaken. The neoclassical work, directed
by Eustaquio Giannini, was completed in 1791. Before the reform, the tower
was a prismatic body with a square base. Its exterior had a stone wall
with two doors in the lower part and asymmetrical windows that reached
the top floor, and a spiral etching that also traveled to the top. The
old Roman structure is conserved in its interior, but with wooden stairs
from the restoration of the building, harmonizing with the upper frames
of the doors and windows.